PHP Contract Job Trends in Buckinghamshire

PHP
South East > Buckinghamshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Buckinghamshire requiring PHP skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 12 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 45 48 56
Rank change year-on-year +3 +8 +36
Contract jobs citing PHP 1 6 8
As % of all contract jobs in Buckinghamshire 0.27% 1.53% 1.27%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.96% 5.56% 4.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 2 7
10th Percentile - - £355
25th Percentile £356 £535 £379
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £363 £550 £405
Median % change year-on-year -34.09% +35.80% +1.25%
75th Percentile £369 £565 £412
90th Percentile - - £423
South East median daily rate £575 £550 £419
% change year-on-year +4.55% +31.34% +4.69%

All Programming Languages
Buckinghamshire

PHP falls under the Programming Languages category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring coding skills in Buckinghamshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 104 108 178
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Buckinghamshire 27.96% 27.55% 28.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 68 76 140
10th Percentile £311 £249 £325
25th Percentile £355 £406 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £436 £488 £500
Median % change year-on-year -10.51% -2.50% -9.09%
75th Percentile £553 £568 £575
90th Percentile £575 £653 £643
South East median daily rate £490 £513 £525
% change year-on-year -4.39% -2.38% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 1
Median hourly rate - £36.17 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year - -48.34% +3.92%
South East median hourly rate £55.00 £62.50 £55.00
% change year-on-year -12.00% +13.64% -13.67%

PHP
Job Vacancy Trend in Buckinghamshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing PHP relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Buckinghamshire.

PHP job vacancy trend in Buckinghamshire

PHP
Daily Rate Trend in Buckinghamshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Buckinghamshire citing PHP.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Buckinghamshire citing PHP

PHP
Hourly Rate Trend in Buckinghamshire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Buckinghamshire citing PHP.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Buckinghamshire citing PHP

PHP
Contract Job Locations in Buckinghamshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing PHP within the Buckinghamshire region over the 6 months to 12 November 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Milton Keynes +1 1 £363 -34.09% 2
PHP
South East

PHP
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Buckinghamshire by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 1 (100.00%) WordPress
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) MySQL
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Developer
1 1 (100.00%) PHP Developer
1 1 (100.00%) PHP WordPress Developer
1 1 (100.00%) WordPress Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) CSS
1 1 (100.00%) CSS3
1 1 (100.00%) HTML
1 1 (100.00%) HTML5
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) API Integration
1 1 (100.00%) Data Protection
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) JavaScript